Although on the same fault line, this earthquake was much less powerful than the previous one.
The issue, however, has already become political, with the same fault lines forming as they did during the debt debate that paralyzed Washington last month.
Geologists warn that the two earthquakes occurred on the same fault line, which may signal hyperactive seismic activity in the region, South China Morning Post reports.
It was along the same fault line that a devastating magnitude-7.9 quake struck on May 12, 2008, leaving more than 90, 000 people dead or missing and presumed dead in one of the worst natural disasters to strike China in recent decades.
The earthquake Saturday morning triggered landslides that cut off roads and disrupted phone and power connections in mountainous Lushan county, in Sichuan's Ya'an city area, which is further south on the same fault line where a devastating quake wreaked widespread damage across the region five years ago.
The area lies near the same Longmenshan fault where the devastating 7.9-magnitude quake struck in May 2008, leaving more than 90, 000 people dead or missing and presumed dead.
His approach is to approve of studies that appear to offer some glimmer that cell phone energy is carcinogenic and at the same time to find fault with studies that show no evidence of an effect.
There are too many kids in America who are not getting the same kinds of opportunities through no fault of their own.
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But at the same time it's quite simply not all our fault, and it needs to be a joint effort between Pakistan and between other countries as well to try to stamp out extremism.
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Of course it is more complicated than that, but if money can be spent and energy expended to argue over who is at fault for our current economic woes, that same money and that same energy can be harnessed to divine a solution as to how to put everybody back to work.
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